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Old 07-12-2008, 03:11 PM
Ian Robinson
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Originally Posted by Jen View Post
Its really hard these days not to spend money on your kids they want different things compared to what we wanted when we were kids.
playstations & games, I-PODS, mobile phones, TV,s, laptops you cant buy things like that for just a small amount of cash these days
If they want expensive stuff - they need to learn to urn the money needed to buy the expensive stuff themselves - like we did (with a few exceptions who's parents were loaded) , or downsize their expectations.

There's a kid who mows our lawn - I pay him $25 , and he does most the neighbours lawns, got a good little tax free business going and he has saved enough to buy a 4 wheel motor bike thingy over the last few years .... wish more kids were like him. I reckon that kid is going places.
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